Friday, February 06, 2004
This world is certainly an evil place. On apparently no provocation, a Florida man kidnapped and murdered an 11-year-old girl. In times like these the "proverbs" we quote that supposedly explain the ways of the world are finally revealed to have no meaning. It is a fallen world and in this alone is there any meaning. The one thing we can know for certain is that it does not make sense. Murderous madmen run wild; innocent children die. We can only hope the man responsible will get the full judgment of the law. And that the peace of God, the only thing that can help in times like these, will descend upon the family of this little girl.
"It's like in those old stories, Mr. Frodo: the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, until sometimes you didn't want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing. A new day will come, and the sun, when it shines, will shine the brighter. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something, even if you were too small to understand what it was. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand: Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept on, because they were holding on to something."
"What are we holding to, Sam?"
"That there's some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for."
--from "The Two Towers."
"It's like in those old stories, Mr. Frodo: the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, until sometimes you didn't want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing. A new day will come, and the sun, when it shines, will shine the brighter. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something, even if you were too small to understand what it was. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand: Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept on, because they were holding on to something."
"What are we holding to, Sam?"
"That there's some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for."
--from "The Two Towers."
// posted by The Pendragon @ 3:09 PM 
